It was called "Blood prison" because in the Ottoman era it was turned into a prison to arrest the accused before they are put on trial.
It was built in the Mamluk era, year (666 AH / 1268 AD) by the Mamluk Prince Aladdin Al Busairi.
It consists of an open courtyard surrounded by a room (recently expanded to accommodate a larger population) and a retreat and mosque on the southwest. In order to reach this square, it passes through a beautiful entrance with arches. This entrance leads to Drakra (the square or rectangular area that follows the entrance directly and reaches the inside of the building), which is paved in a cross vaulted way.
Ribat has a Mihrab that is a hollow niche inside it. This house has several waqf places, including the house adjacent to the Ribat house and the courtyard adjacent to it.
The house adjacent to the land that stands by the market, a mill and oven in Jerusalem, a cellar in Altawaheen valley.
The adjoining houses adjacent to the cellar and the old , the bathroom known as the parking lot, and all the tank in the city of Jerusalem, "and the restoration and rehabilitation of this building in the period (1986 - 1975)AD.
The legal arguments show that it made waqf on 18/Rabie’ alakher/742 AH, 7October 1341 AD and his administration, and his financial and in-kind allowances, jobs, owners and many of their daily affairs were recorded.
In the Mamluk Period
Dedicated to the establishment of the mystics and the poor in Jerusalem.
The Ottoman era
It transferred to a prison to arrest the accused before they tried, called "blood prison" at the end of the Ottoman era, it used as a residence for families of the Sudanese Takarneh.
In 1969, the mosque rebuilt and rehabilitated to receive the worshipers, electricity extended to it ten years later, at the beginning of the 1980s.